That's right, I signed up for another SAL at this past weekend's Jingle Ball, this one by Tiny Modernist. It's called Winter Forest Ornaments and it only has five small parts, the last of which comes out on December 21st (one part every four days, so part 2 tomorrow). I started part 1 yesterday and almost finished it, so this should be very easy to keep up with:
I thought this darker fabric (I think it's PTP Crystal Dusk Edinburgh) would look good with the colors, but I think the opalescence is a bit too much. However, it's not like I'm going to do anything with the finished piece, so I'm just going to go ahead and stitch the whole thing--maybe by the time it's all filled in I will like it better!
I did buy The Christmas Beetle by Hands on Design and stitched a bit of it on Saturday:
I think it's a beautiful design and I'll be working on it in between SAL parts from Tiny Modernist and Jardin Prive. I did manage to catch up with the Jardin Prive SAL before part 7 dropped; this is up to part 6:
This part included a couple of bars of Jingle Bells, though it didn't include the words. I charted those myself because I wanted to use little jingle bells as an embellishment but thought they seemed kind of random if you didn't know what the music was!
This is up to part 7 completed, the halfway point:
There was also a bonus ornament included with the SAL, which I finished this past Saturday:
I think the whole design cost around $15, which seems like a lot of value for a good, multi-part SAL these days.
I have to say that I don't think I would attend the Jingle Ball again unless there is a pattern or a class that I really wanted, and I didn't want to wait a year or more to get it. The most interactive parts are probably the stitching lounge, with "tables" of stitchers, and WIP speed dating (you spend 6 minutes with a random stitcher, then either decide to stay with that person or go to a new one), neither of which I even wanted to try (it didn't help that I got sick last Friday, and felt even worse on Saturday) as that's just not my thing. I did enjoy watching several of the meet-&-greets with the designers, and they all offered a freebie chart in their shops (except for Teresa Kogut), so between that, being able to get the Christmas Beetle chart right away and the Stand Up for Santa class with Cathy Habermann I feel like it was worth the $15 entry fee. I also bought a chart from Jeannette Douglas that I've had my eye on for a while; she did a set of 12 Christmas Dots designs this year, but at $6 each I couldn't quite make myself order them (123Stitch has them for $5.39 each, which would still be almost $65), but she had a special offer for the pdf of the entire set for $49, so I bought it:
I want to stitch them all together, so maybe I'll try to do a couple each month, as that's how they were released this year. I will say that printing out 13 color pages sucked my color ink cartridge down pretty fast, so maybe not quite as good a deal as I thought... 🤣
Hope everyone has a great stitchy week!
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